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woo me with science

(32,139 posts)
Fri Feb 27, 2015, 08:17 AM Feb 2015

The rude ROFL smiley response and predictable attempt at personal smear

from DU's resident corporate talking points dispensers, when they cannot make a legitimate argument.



Spare the bids to cheer until the people can see what we're getting.

If we have learned ANYTHING from this administration, it is not to cheer shiny PR announcements of accomplishments on behalf of the people until AFTER we can actually see them.

True to form, the publicity blitz and bids for cheering happen NOW, before we are even permitted to see the thing.

Secret government assaults the people. We have seen that over and over and over again.

This administration has perfected the dishonest PR strategy of claiming loudly and publicly that they intend to do something and gaining the PR benefits of the announcement, but then quietly turning around and doing the opposite.

They did it with ACA and the public option.
They did it with that beautiful speech about reining in the MIC, followed immediately by two new major wars and a TRILLION dollar ramping up of nuclear arms.
They did it with Obama's despicable speeches claiming to support whistleblowers, although Chelsea Manning was a victim of torture and Edward Snowden pursued by forcing down the plane of a head of state.
They did it when they lied and promised that big banks would be under indictment in the fall of 2013.
They are trying to do it now with the despicable TPP.
And now SECRET "net neutrality" deals.


No, we need to see it first.

It's a pattern. Publicize and seek credit for lying intentions, but keep the process secret and end up screwing the people in the end.

We need to see this agreement before one iota of cheering is warranted.














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